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Sri Veeramakaliamman temple Little India Singapore

Sri Veeramakaliamman temple Singapore

Sri Veeramakaliamman temple, Little India is best place in Singapore with colorful architecture boasting rich Indian heritage and culture. Little India is past Indian migrant’s trade and community center. Indian Singaporean community call it as Tekka. It’s place to see blast of colors, hear sounds of bells, feel soft silks, smell spices fragrance and finally taste Indian delicacies. It has many heritage sites to show unity in diversity. Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Chinese, Buddhist cultural monuments.

There mainly 12 streets to roam and enjoy little Indian sub- continent. Deepavali festivals of light, Pongal and Indian new year are the main festivals to enjoy heritage trails.

kali amman temple

1. Sri Veeramakaliamman temple

It’s goddess Veeramakaliamman temple a famous Singapore temple. With skull garland in her neck goddess threatens evil and with her blessing eyes fulfills devotees wishes. This popular south Indian architecture marvel is with 5 -tier main tower built in 19th century. It’s one of oldest Hindu temple in Singapore.

Hindu temples in Singapore – Little India

2. Sri Vadapathira kaliamman temple

hindu temple singapore

This is Dravidian style temple dedicated to goddess. There are many sub shrines for Lord Shiva, goddess Lakshmi.

3. Sri Lakshmi Narayana temple

The main God in this temple is Lord Vishnu with consort goddess Lakshmi. The particular red and white pattern and domes attracts towards this 19th century temple. There are sub shrines for Lord Shiva and goddess Kali.

Sri Srinivasa Perumal temple

4. Sri Srinivasa Perumal temple

It’s a 18th century Lord Vishnu temple built by Hindu community. The 5 tier tower renovated in 197o. Lord Vishnu incarnations statue and colorful mythological statues on temple’s tower are special attractions.

Tips

Most of temples opens at 6 – 12 am & 6 – 9 pm

Remove foot wear while entering temple & wear decent dress.

5. Indian heritage center (Campbell road)

It’s cultural and heritage museum of Indian Singaporeans opened in 2015.

Heritage sites Little India Singapore map

Little India Guide more Heritage sites

6. Buddha temple (Race course road)

This temple is dedicated to Buddha with 1000 lights or bulbs. A Thai guru established temple in 19th century. The main attraction here is 15 ft beautiful Buddha statue with religious significance.

7. Former house of Tan Teng Niah

This is colorful Chinese business man house in the middle of Little India. This attractive building leads to nearby china town.

Guide

8. kampong kapor methodist church is established in 18th century & church of true light is another one to visit.

9. Abdul mosque

This mosque was built in 2003. The mosque was mixture architecture of Indian and Arabic styles with small pillars and arches.

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Gayathri Sharma is travel enthusiast from India. Adventure lover, Travel blogger by profession. She loves to write on Indian tradition and culture and always fascinated by Indian temples.Read some good articles about Travel around the world from her website YatrasBlog.